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High up on his camel, Adam Mahamoudane surveys the scene below him. The dry, sandy riverbed is a sea of color. Some 60 camels mill about, stirring up the dust and leaving apple-shaped footprints in the sand, while riders rest on their haunches in the shade of acacia trees. Most of the men - Tuareg nomads from the small oasis town of Timia in the West African nation of Niger - wear loose fitting, black trousers, with yellow or white edging around the hem. Over the trousers hangs a cotton robe held at the waist by a colorful belt. Many wear...
They're out to set an agenda for the U.S.-Mexico relationship that would leave in the dust of history 155 years marked, successively, by warfare, suspicion and wary tolerance. "We have to reduce the gap between Mexico and the United States--the wage gap, the technology gap, the infrastructure gap," Castaneda says. "It is quite clear that Mexico faces enormous difficulties over the next 15 years or so in finding ways to finance its infrastructure: highways, airports, telecommunications, electricity, refineries, fiber optics--the works. We think that it is in the United States' best interest to help on this...
...driver, a native Dayak called Jake, says the two-ton logging trucks, each loaded with four or five huge logs, make a combined total of 168 trips a day. Each time a truck passes them, the open bed of the pickup is enveloped in a choking cloud of yellow dust. Along buries his head in his wife's white T shirt. He keeps his head pressed down long after the truck has passed, and several others have taken its place, refusing to watch, clinging onto Iot's shoulders. Perhaps it is better that Bruno Manser disappeared: the logging trucks have...
...done at night to avoid government monitors. In any case, the inspectors don't have to look very hard. The earth around Duck Pond is pockmarked like a lunar landscape with illegal pits. Trucks laden with coal constantly rumble through western Guizhou's villages, leaving a coating of ebony dust on children walking home from school...
...problem might seem to arise among those authors whose novels describe the lives of the poor. It would not make sense, or be good business, for example, to portray the Joad family traveling west in a sleek eight-cylinder Packard sedan, Tom Joad's diamond Rolex flashing in the Dust Bowl air. The poor do not make good ads..... Or do they? Might be edgy possibilities here, a kind of Walker Evans chic - a good spread in Vanity Fair, page after page of gaunt black-and-white shots, weathered Depression faces, a certain erotic poverty...